Wed/Thur, Oct 6/7 writing reflection on prejudice.

                            

A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Some of the most well-known types of prejudice include:

1.Racism -prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

2.. Sexism-prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

3. Ageism-refers to negative discriminatory practices against old people, people in their middle years, teenagers and children.

4. Classism-prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class

5.  Homophobia-dislike of or prejudice against gay people

6. Nationalism-identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

7. Religious prejudice.-note that prejudice  towards Jews is called anti-Semitism and prejudice  towards Muslims is called Islamophobia

8.  Xenophobia.- fear of foreigners or other cultures

9. Physical ableism is hate or discrimination based on a person's physical appearance. Mental ableism is discrimination based on mental health conditions and cognitive differences.

In class: written reflection on a prejudice and discrimination.

         Two paragraphs. Minimum of 250 words total (more is welcomed)

               Due by 6 pm Thursday, October 7  You have classtime Wednesday/ Thursday.

                You will receive two writing grades: one for content and one for language conventions. That is spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

                Make sure to proof read. One of the most effectiv ways is to read your work aloud-even if it is only in your head.

As this is your first formal writing, you will create a google doc following the correct MLA format.            

                                            

Directions:  To begin. You must use a correct MLA heading remember that the work is always double-spaced)

                     Your name

                     Instructor name

                     English II- ( ),  Discrimination

                     Date: 7 October 2021

Please note carefully the international date format. There is no punctuation. This goes on the top left of your document.

                       Use Times New Roman font

                        Size 12

Share with: dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org

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From the list above, select one type of prejudice

                     Paragraph one: 

                    1. You will begin with a hook sentence to grab the

                         reader and introduce your theme or central

                         idea, which is prejudice and discrimination.

(consider a generic / general statement about what prejudice is and how the harm affects or impacts society and individuals.)

                    2.  In your next sentence you will narrow down to 

                          your chosen topic. Read the definition; then put 

                          this in your own  words; paraphrase what that  

                          means. 

                    3. Conclude this paragraph by responding in general

                         terms to the impact of this prejudice. Think who,

                         what.

                     Paragraph 2

                     1.  YOU NEED to transition* into your next  

                          paragraph to focus on two potential scenarios or 

                          situations where someone might experience 

                          discrimination. Consider social, economic,

                          political or educational. This is a short writing 

                          assignment, so choose only two and write a 

                          succint (clear and to the point) example.

                      2. Your last one or two sentences should be a 

                          statement on what happens when one is not 

                          prejudice. This will depend upon your topic 

                          choice.

                          

*

                     

Make sure to proof read! I suggest strongly that you read what your wrote aloud. Capitalization? Correct Punctuation? Spelling? 

You will not need to use "I think, I believe" or any other iteration of these words. You make a statement. You are supporting this. 

Avoid it! When you want to use this pronoun, select a synonym. 

Any time you start your sentence with If (I, he, she, they), use were. If takes the subjunctive tense.

Tuesday, October 5 Counselors and PSAT

 

 

The counselors are here today.

Are you missing assignments? I am avaiable for assistance periods 6, 7, 8.

Monday, October 4: culmination of material on America by Claude McKay.

 

In class: today you are independently completing a graphic organizer on Claude McKay's America that has been chunked, so as you are able to respond to specific lines in the sonnet. There is nothing new here. We have covered the everyone of the topics within the organizer.  This is due at the close of class, unless you receive extended time.

Note: this will count as a writing grade.

Remember that the counsellors will be coming in tomorrow.

Missing an assignment? Please check the blog. Everything we cover in class is here.

America by Claude McKay

1. Although she feeds me bread of bitterness	1. What is being personified in line one and is referred to as “she”   2. Explain the metaphor “bread of bitterness” After you have answered a and b       a. what is bread supposed to be for?   b. Is “bitterness” sweet or tart? Now return to number 2.
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,	3. What does the visual imagery of a “tiger’s tooth tell us about the author’s feelings towards the city?
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess	4. Underline the word that LEAST reflects “stealing my breath of life”?    smother,  choke,  asphyxiate,  inspiring
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.	5. Think of the setting of the sonnet. Explain “cultured hell”
5. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,	6. vigor is power (think vigorous). Now think about what tides are like and explain the simile “like tides into my blood”
Giving me strength erect against her hate,	7. Who / what is the author accusing of hate?
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.     Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,	8. What might the author mean when speaking about “her bigness”?     9. Note the simile “like a flood”. Look back into line 5. What word indicates the power of a flood?
I stand within her walls with not a shred
10. Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.	10. Which word best defines a.     terror:  dread   confidence   courage b.     malice:  love     contempt      amity c.      jeer:       cheer   applause       sneer
And see her might and granite wonders there	11. To what do “granite wonders” refer?
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,	12. Why do you think “Time” is capitalized?     13.  What literary device is being used here?     14. To err means to make a mistake? What does “unerring” mean”?
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.	15. The sonnet ends with a smile (like), comparing “priceless treasures sinking in the sand.” What is the author’s tone, which is the literary term for attitude, towards the city? Answer this in a complete sentence.

 

 

Friday, October : imagery practice

 

In class: Everyone will receive a handout, and everyone with complete an individual handout. However, you will work together to determine the types of imagery used and examples from the text to support your selection.

This is due at the close of class.

For anyone who is absent, please copy and paste the following onto a google document, complete and share with me. Make sure you have given me share rights.

dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org

Part 1

Group practice: For each of the following identify the type of imagery: seeing /visual,     hearing/auditory, smelling/ olfactory, tasting/ gustatory, or feeling/ sensory.

 

1.       In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.   from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The type of imagery used is _____________________________.

Examples from the text that support this are: (insert examples)   ___________________________________________________________________________

 ____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

2.       In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots.   Patrick Suskind's novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

 

The type of imagery used is __________________________

 

Examples from the text that support this are: (insert examples)   _____________________________________

 __________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

 

3.       On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden. Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude

The type of imagery used is ____________________________________

Examples from the text that support this are: (insert examples)_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

4.       It commenced rainin one day an did not stop for two months. We went thru ever different kind of rain they is, cep'n maybe sleet or hail. It was little stingin rain sometimes, an big ole fat rain at others. It came sidewise an straight down an sometimes even seem to come up from the groun.    Forest Gump by Winston Groom

 

The type of imagery used is ____________________________________

Examples from the text that support this are: (insert examples)  _________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

5.       Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. Herman Melville Moby Dick

 The type of imagery used is ____________________________________

Examples from the text that support this are: (insert examples)_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________

Part 2 

Group practice. For each of the following sentences, identify the imagery is 1) seeing/ visual, 2) hearing/ auditory, 3) smelling/olfactory, 4) tasting/ gustatory 5) touch/ tactile

 

1.     The eerie silence was shattered by her scream.                                      _______________________

2.     Her face blossomed when she caught a glance of him.                          _______________________

3.     He could hear his world crashing, when he heard the news.                 _______________________

4.     She was like a breath of fresh air infusing life back into him.              ________________________

5.     The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.            ________________________

6.     The deep yellow hues of the sunset drowned in and mixed with the blues of the sea.____________

7.     ­­ Mommy hauled her little baby up in the air, placed him on the bed and prodded her fingers in his squishy skin eliciting fits of belly-laughs.  _____________________

8.     Brown horned gazelle meandered about the tall grass blinking away the following flies; cushioned paws didn’t make sound and the gazelle didn’t know the danger lurking

behind it.  ______________

9.     Ja’Nae didn’t have to wait for the clock to strike 2, her mother stormed out of her room, slamming the door behind her and glaring at her daughter, daggers in her eyes._____________

10.  The wings of the fan curved like a dog’s ears waggled with a raucous squeak at a speed that the air couldn’t reach the one sitting under it._____________

 

          

 

 

Thursday, September 30 figurative language devices in McKay's America

 

In class: Today you are looking closely at three figurative language devices that McKay uses in his poem America: imagery, metaphor and simile.

We'll anchor by reading the poem twice then; you have a class handout with the poem. This is due by the end of class as independent work, unless you receive the extended time.

If you are absent, please copy the document below onto a google doc, complete and share with me at 

dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org

Please make sure you give me sharing rights.

FIVE  Different Types of Sensory Imagery

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It is useful to break down sensory imagery by sense.

1. Visual imagery engages the sense of sight. This is what you can see, and includes visual descriptions. Physical attributes including color, size, shape, lightness and darkness, shadows, and shade are all part of visual imagery.
2. Gustatory imagery engages the sense of taste. This is what you can taste, and includes flavors. This can include the five basic tastes—sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami—as well as the textures and sensations tied to the act of eating.
3. Tactile imagery engages the sense of touch. This is what you can feel, and includes textures and the many sensations a human being experiences when touching something. Differences in temperature is also a part of tactile imagery.
4. Auditory imagery engages the sense of hearing. This is the way things sound. Literary devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration can help create sounds in writing.
5. Olfactory imagery engages the sense of smell. Scent is one of the most direct triggers of memory and emotion, but can be difficult to write about. Since taste and smell are so closely linked, you’ll sometimes find the same words (such as “sweet”) used to describe both. Simile is common in olfactory imagery, because it allows writers to compare a particular scent to common smells like dirt, grass, manure, or roses.

America

 by Claude McKay

1. Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
5. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
10. Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

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Class handout:

 

Name_____________________________________

Claude McKay’s America     Identifying figurative language devices of imagery, simile and metaphor and how they are used within the poem. Although there might be sometimes more than one possibility. You only need to select one type of imagery and explain its usage within the poem.

America

 by Claude McKay

1. Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
5. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
10. Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

text	Type of figurative language device	Explanation of how or why this contributes to the understanding of the poem
“feeds me bread of bitterness”	metaphor	Bread is essential for life. The poet needs the city to stay alive, but his experiences are difficult.
“…sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth”
“Her vigor flows like tides…”
“Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood”
“…see her might and granite wonders there”
“Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand”
…as a rebel fronts a king in state.

Tues/ Wed, Sept 28/29 prejudice and Claude McKay's America

 

 In Class: Collect your notebooks

1. How does prejudice emerge? 

Nobody is born prejudice, yet throughout history, we continue to form opinions about people who look or act differently than we do.

Begin with a correct MLA heading:

Your name

Instructor's name

English-II-( ), America

27 September 2021

Respond to the following question in a complete, well-written sentence.

 1. How does prejudice emerge in a person or society?

(Be prepared to share)

Respond to the following question in two to three complete, well-written sentence.

2. What are the effects of prejudice? (consider customs, laws and institutions)

(Be prepared to share)

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Let's take a look at ourselves

Concepts That Numb the Brain

The effects of prejudice – what happens inside us, outside us, and all around us – when prejudice exists.

Hurtful Words

There are words in our vocabulary that disrespect and dehumanize people. Many are designed to put down certain groups. Using hurtful words is one way we let our prejudices show.

Conditioned Thoughts + Reinforced by Conditioned Feelings = Conditioned Re-Actions

Making Generalizations

Lazy thinking causes us to make generalizations about people without taking the time to find out the specifics of who they really are. Take a look at a few results of prejudiced thinking.

Sterotyping

A standardized mental picture held in common by members of a group, that represents an oversimplified opinion, attitude or judgment.

Test your prejudiced thinking by mentally filling in the blanks in your mind. Do not speak your thoughts aloud.

• Westerners are ________
• Northeasterners are ________
• Southerners are ________
• Northerners are ________
• Foreigners are ________
• Asians are ________
• The Irish are ________
• Mexicans are ___________
• Jews are ________
• Africans are ____________
• Arabs are ______________

Did you notice any prejudiced thoughts? Write two to three sentences about what you noticed about your self.

Bigotry 

Refers to one who is strongly partial to one’s own group, belief system, race or politics, and is intolerant of those who are different.

A bigot has a fixed mindset, an immovable way of thinking that divides people. Bigots think in terms of “my group” vs. “your group.” As soon as we have “my” vs. “your” anything, we have conflict. Sectioning the human race into “different” parts creates separation and conflict.

In this life, we focus more on differences than similarities, and we need to change this.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: Collect your notebooks.

The following is a continuation of your responses / reflections on prejudice.

 We are reading Claude McKay's sonnet America as a class. 

As you read, take note of the figurative language device of imagery. Think about how the five different senses are employed to give depth of thought and feeling to McKay's poem. 

Once we have reviewed the poem, please follow the instructions listed below to respond to the four questions that follow.

New York skyline 1920's

Guiding questions:

             What is the theme or central idea of Claude McKay's America?

              How does he feel about this city?

              What are clues in the poem that tell us how feels?

              This unit has to do with prejudice and discrimination. How is this relevant to this poem?

AMERICA

by Claude McKay

1921

      

Festus Claudius “Claude” McKay (1889-1948) was a Jamaican-American novelist and poet who played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance — a cultural, social, and artistic movement that took place in Harlem, New York. “America” was first published in The Liberator in 1921, in which the speaker discusses his or her feelings about America. 

 As you read, note the  use of the figurative language device of imagery* in this sonnet* that communicates the speaker's perspective on America. We will be reviewing the poem's imagery in class on Thursday.

* an English sonnet has 14 lines of 10 syllables per line

*imagery is the use of figurative language to represent the objects, ideas, and actions in such a way that the appeals to the physical sense.

Sensory imagery involves the use of descriptive language to create mental images. In literary terms, sensory imagery is a type of imagery; the difference is that sensory imagery works by engaging a reader’s five senses. Any description of sensory experience in writing can be considered sensory imagery.

Five types of imagery: (there are more, but this is what we are focusing on)

1. seeing or visual

2. hearing or auditory

3. smelling or olfactory

4.tasting or gustatory

5. feeling or sensory

1. Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
5. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
10. Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

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In your notebook, as a continuation of yesterday, please respond to the following guiding question. Weave in text using evidence from the poem (don't forget you quotation marks" to support your response. This needs only to be one or two sentences.

Your question:   What is the theme or central idea of Claude McKay's America?

Example of how to weave in the text: 

In response to the question of how McKay feels about the city:

McKay has mixed feelings about New York. While he "love[s] this cultured hell", the city "feeds [him] bread of bitterness."

Note that how you can change the word within the line. Just put your words into brackets.

Text-Dependent Questions Directions:

 For the following four questions, choose the best answer: In your notebook write:

number 1:                                                                                                              number 2:                                                                                                  number 3:                                                                                                             number 4:

                                        Question1_________________

1. PART A: Which of the following best describes the speaker’s feelings about America?

A. The speaker has experienced both good and bad things in America, and thus

remains indifferent.

B. The speaker despises America and has decided to speak out about their bad

experiences.

C. The speaker has a love-hate relationship with America, but ultimately has lost

faith in the country.

D. The speaker dislikes and has lost faith in America and believes that it will not last

as it is.

 

                                        Question 2______________________

2. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

A. “Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, / And sinks into my throat her

tiger’s tooth, / Stealing my breath of life, I will confess / I love this cultured hell

that tests my youth.” (Lines 1-4)

B. “Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, / Giving me strength erect against her

hate” (Lines 5-6)

C. “Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, / I stand within her walls with not a shred--

/ Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.” (Lines 8-10)

D. “Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, / And see her might and granite wonders

there” (Lines 11-12)

 

                                     Question 3_____________________________

 

3. PART A: In line 11, the word “darkly” is most likely used to convey which of the following?

A. The word “darkly” conveys the speaker has an overall cynical opinion of America.

B. The word “darkly” conveys the speaker’s general fear of time.

C. The word “darkly” conveys the speaker’s uncertainty about the future of

America.

D. The word “darkly” conveys that the speaker does not actually know anything

about America.

 

                                   Question 4_________________________________

4. PART B: Which of the following phrases supports the answer to Part A?

A. “I gaze into the days ahead” (Line 11)

B. “might and granite wonders” (Line 12)

C. “the Touch of Time’s unerring hand” (Line 13)

D. “priceless treasures sinking in the sand” (Line 14)